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Websites that work for a living.

Beautiful is the baseline. We build sites designed to perform, then keep making them better.

Panacea Life Sciences website
VUE website
Canis Collection website
Arkade website on mobile

Service 02 of 04
Strategy, design, build
and what comes after

Your website is usually the first real conversation a customer has with your business. We design and build sites that look the part, load fast, are built to rank, and make the next step obvious. If you're in Salt Lake City, see web design for Salt Lake City businesses, built with you in the room.

(01) A page, explodedarkade.ai, built on Usable

Every page is a stack of blocks.

We build on Usable, our own page builder. Each section is a designed, tested block. Your team can edit it, reorder it and reuse it on the next page without calling a developer.

New pages ship faster, the brand stays consistent, and nothing breaks when someone changes a headline.

See the Arkade case study →

layeredHero

Hero block: One line in. Qualified calls out.

receipt

Itemized receipt block

calculator

Margin calculator block

leaderboard

Leaderboard block

countdownCta

Countdown call to action block
(02) From napkin to liveReal work, real stages
Hand-drawn page sketches

1

Sketch

Strategy, goals and sitemap, worked out on paper. (VUE)

Greyscale wireframe

2

Wireframe

Content and hierarchy agreed before styling. (Canis)

Finished page design

3

Design

The look, the voice and every state of every page. (VUE)

A built, working calculator block

4

Build

Fast, accessible, connected to your CMS and CRM. (Arkade)

Visits a month48,000600 in May, 48,000 by Oct5GrowMeasure, improve, repeat. (Panacea Life)

A good-looking site is the starting line, not the finish.

A website has a job. For most businesses that job is to earn trust quickly, answer the questions buyers actually have, and turn interest into enquiries or sales. Design matters, but only as part of that job.

We start with strategy: who is visiting, what they need to see, and what you need them to do. From there we plan the structure, shape the content and design an experience that guides people without getting in the way.

Then we build it properly, on a content management system your team can run, connected to the tools you already use. Every site is built with search in mind from the first line of code, because a site nobody finds isn't doing its job.

Launch isn't the end. We watch how the site performs and keep improving it, because the best websites get better after they go live.

Good
questions.

Poster of crossing cyan, magenta and yellow lines spelling CMYK

How long does a new website take?

It depends on the number of pages, the content and the integrations involved. You get a phased timeline with milestones before we start.

Can we update the site ourselves?

Yes. We set up the CMS so your team can edit pages, publish content and handle everyday changes without a developer.

Do you write the content?

We can. Content is often what holds a website up, so we can plan it, write it, or shape what you have, with search in mind.

Is SEO part of a website build?

Every site we build is structured for search. Growing organic traffic over time is its own service: SEO & Organic Growth.

What happens after launch?

We watch how the site performs, fix what needs fixing and recommend improvements based on how people actually use it.

Let's build
yours. ↗

A new site, or one that needs to earn its keep? Let's start with what it's for.

In Salt Lake City and across Utah: Salt Lake City Web Design

Recent builds: Barco's online truck sales site · ICO Fairbourne Station's leasing site

Also: brand work · search visibility · custom software